Murder in the DPRK: A National Pastime

Jan. 15 In the far north of North Korea, in remote locations not far from the borders with China and Russia, a gulag not unlike the worst labor camps built by Mao and Stalin in the last century holds some 200,000 men, women and children accused of political crimes. A month-long investigation by NBC News, including interviews with former prisoners, guards and U.S. and South Korean officials, revealed the horrifying conditions these people must endure conditions that shock even those North Koreans accustomed to the near-famine conditions of Kim Jong Ils realm.
ITS ONE of the worst, if not the worst situation human rights abuse situation in the world today, said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who held hearings on the camps last year. There are very few places that could compete with the level of depravity, the harshness of this regime in North Korea toward its own people.
Satellite photos provided by DigitalGlobe confirm the existence of the camps, and interviews with those who have been there and with U.S. officials who study the North suggest Brownbacks assessment may be conservative.

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But remember, we have to appease the DPRK because, after all, they're just misunderstood. And how dangerous can Kim Jong Il really be when he so loves the antics of Daffy Duck?